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Torsten Hoefler, currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, has been appointed as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computational Science at ETH Zurich. Torsten Hoefler is internationally regarded as one of the leading young scientists in the field of high-performance computing. At the University of Illinois, he is currently involved […]

John Feo is the director of the Center for Adaptive Supercomputer Software (CASS) at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. John and his team are using a Cray XMT 1 supercomputer since three years to study a large spectrum of applications like graphs algorithms, Dynamic network analysis (DNA), Emerging Subnetwork Patterns, bioinformatics, semantic search, and semantic database […]

Robert (Bob) Techentin is Principal Software Engineer in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group at Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minnesota). Robert is one of the first users of the new Cray XMT supercomputer specially designed to analyze large amounts of data. The Mayo Clinic is a large clinical practice for medicine and is specialized on medical […]

Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather forecast model on distributed memory computers. Since then he is getting involved in weather forecasting and operational forecasting. In his actual function he is responsible […]